Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and John McDaid have announced today that they will be playing a special homecoming Christmas acoustic gig in Belfast on December 23rd at the Waterfront Hall. 

Support comes in the form of Derry singer songwriter SOAK who recently popped into ATL to perform some live session tracks. 

Snow Patrol recently finished their 2012 'Fallen Empires' world tour tying in with the release of their sixth studio album of the same name.